Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle

Men's 100 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Date	22 July 1996 (heats & finals)
Competitors	61 from 45 nations
Winning time	48.74 NR
Medalists
Alexander Popov  Russia Gary Hall, Jr.  United States Gustavo Borges  Brazil

The men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 22 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Matt Biondi (USA)	48.42	Austin, United States	10 August 1988
Olympic record	Matt Biondi (USA)	48.63	Seoul, South Korea	22 September 1988

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	4	Alexander Popov	Russia	48.74	Q, NR
2	6	4	Gary Hall, Jr.	United States	48.90	Q
3	8	3	Gustavo Borges	Brazil	49.17	Q
4	6	3	Francisco Sánchez	Venezuela	49.59	Q
5	5	8	Ricardo Busquets	Puerto Rico	49.61	Q, NR
6	6	5	Pavlo Khnykin	Ukraine	49.69	Q
7	6	2	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	49.73	Q
8	8	5	Fernando Scherer	Brazil	49.79	Q
9	8	6	Lars Frölander	Sweden	49.91	q, WD
10	6	7	Christian Tröger	Germany	50.06	q
11	7	1	Stephen Clarke	Canada	50.14	q
12	7	4	Jon Olsen	United States	50.17	q
13	5	1	Bartosz Kizierowski	Poland	50.18	q, NR
14	7	5	Chris Fydler	Australia	50.27	q
	2	1	Raimundas Mažuolis	Lithuania		q, WD
16	8	2	Rostyslav Svanidze	Ukraine	50.31	q
17	4	4	Sion Brinn	Jamaica	50.38	q, NR
	7	6	Björn Zikarsky	Germany		q
19	5	5	Aleh Rukhlevich	Belarus	50.42
20	6	6	Attila Zubor	Hungary	50.43
21	5	4	Aleksey Yegorov	Kazakhstan	50.49
22	7	8	Yoav Bruck	Israel	50.61
23	5	3	Nicolas Gruson	France	50.71
24	8	1	Vladimir Predkin	Russia	50.75
25	8	8	Salim Iles	Algeria	50.87
26	5	2	Brendon Dedekind	South Africa	50.95
27	5	6	Earl McCarthy	Ireland	50.99
28	8	7	Nicholas Shackell	Great Britain	51.03
29	3	1	Sergey Ashihmin	Kyrgyzstan	51.07	NR
30	7	2	Nicolae Ivan	Romania	51.14
31	6	1	Trent Bray	New Zealand	51.18
32	4	1	Indrek Sei	Estonia	51.19	NR
33	4	7	Juan Benavides	Spain	51.20
34	6	8	Richard Sam Bera	Indonesia	51.25
35	7	7	Béla Szabados	Hungary	51.26
36	2	3	Janko Gojković	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51.28	NR
37	5	7	Shunsuke Ito	Japan	51.29
38	4	5	Felipe Delgado	Ecuador	51.38
39	4	3	Zhao Lifeng	China	51.70
40	4	6	Marijan Kanjer	Croatia	51.76
41	3	6	Giovanni Linscheer	Suriname	51.82
42	3	8	Arthur Li Kai Yien	Hong Kong	51.84
43	3	4	José Isaza	Panama	51.86
44	4	8	Kalle Varonen	Finland	52.00
45	7	3	José Meolans	Argentina	52.02
46	2	2	Georgios Giziotis	Greece	52.04
47	4	2	Tamer Hamed	Egypt	52.16
48	3	3	Oleg Tsvetkovskiy	Uzbekistan	52.39
49	2	7	Koh Yun-ho	South Korea	52.56
50	3	2	Stavros Michaelides	Cyprus	52.65
51	1	4	Darrick Bollinger	Guam	52.68
52	1	5	Kenny Roberts	Seychelles	52.89
53	2	4	Nikola Kalabić	FR Yugoslavia	52.98
54	2	6	Diego Perdomo	Colombia	53.01
55	3	5	Maxim Cazmirciuc	Moldova	53.18
56	3	7	Huang Chih-yung	Chinese Taipei	53.47
57	2	8	Sng Ju Wei	Singapore	53.50
58	2	5	Juan Luis Bocanegra	Guatemala	54.05
59	1	6	Diego Mularoni	San Marino	57.11
60	1	3	Khuwaiter Al-Dhaheri	United Arab Emirates	57.70
	1	2	Ali Al-Gazali	Yemen	DNS

Finals

Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	3	Jon Olsen	United States	49.80
10	4	Christian Tröger	Germany	49.90
11	8	Björn Zikarsky	Germany	49.91
12	1	Sion Brinn	Jamaica	50.09	NR
13	2	Chris Fydler	Australia	50.31
14	7	Rostyslav Svanidze	Ukraine	50.43
15	5	Stephen Clarke	Canada	50.45
16	6	Bartosz Kizierowski	Poland	50.51

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Alexander Popov	Russia	48.74	=NR
	5	Gary Hall, Jr.	United States	48.81
	3	Gustavo Borges	Brazil	49.02
4	1	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	49.13	NR
5	8	Fernando Scherer	Brazil	49.57
6	7	Pavlo Khnykin	Ukraine	49.65
7	2	Ricardo Busquets	Puerto Rico	49.68
8	6	Francisco Sánchez	Venezuela	49.84

External links

• Official Report
• USA Swimming